In this unflinching, yet luminous collection of eight short stories, Kathy-Diane Leveille explores how the past won't let go, how it shapes our future as well as our present. In portraits full of heart and depth, Leveille excavates the narrow stereotypes we have of rural life, offering instead the complexity and grit of rural culture. Set in the Maritimes and rooted in working-class experience, Roads Unravelling depicts the lives of ordinary women as they grapple with the mysteries as well as the absurdities of adulthood.
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"Leveille observes the ties and binds of working class lives in lucidly evoked rural settings." -- Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail, November 8, 2003
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About the Author: Kathy-Diane Leveille is a freelance writer and broadcast journalist living in Quispamsis, New Brunswick. Her short stories have been widely published, and her radio dramas have been broadcast nationally on the CBC.
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I truly have loved books forever. My best friends are books; the fascinating characters, exotic worlds and challenges they contain. When I was growing up, a Saturday wasn't complete without a trip to the library. I would sit at the back of the city bus, where there was plenty of room to spread the booty, and anticipate the worlds that lay between the covers.
It wasn't until after I'd been working as a broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for ten years, that I discovered the only thing more fulfilling than reading a wonderful story is trying to write one.
I became a transplanted Maritimer twenty years ago when I moved to the Kennebecasis River where most of my fiction is set. My first book "Roads Unravelling" was published a few years ago by Sumach Press. The novel
"Let the Shadows Fall Behind You" was released in the spring of 2009 by Kunati books.
I live life in the slow lane next to a wild flower and herb garden visited by a colorful array of birds, one ground hog and four ravenous deer.
It wasn't until after I'd been working as a broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for ten years, that I discovered the only thing more fulfilling than reading a wonderful story is trying to write one.
I became a transplanted Maritimer twenty years ago when I moved to the Kennebecasis River where most of my fiction is set. My first book "Roads Unravelling" was published a few years ago by Sumach Press. The novel
"Let the Shadows Fall Behind You" was released in the spring of 2009 by Kunati books.
I live life in the slow lane next to a wild flower and herb garden visited by a colorful array of birds, one ground hog and four ravenous deer.
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A looking glass into rural Canada,
This review is from: Roads Unravelling: Short Stories (Paperback)
What is accomplished here is rare and exquisite. Each story offers a glimpse into hardscrabble longing. These aren't characters on a predestined trajectory; these are flesh-and-blood people. Fans of minimalists like Alice Munro are especially encouraged to give Ms. Leveille and her characters their due.
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Aunt Gracie, Saint John, Uncle Dister, Aunt Tish, Granny Banty, Sandy Cove Road, Victoria Day, Victoria Plincher, Aunty Grabbity, Black Bush, Aunt Liz, Gil Darby, Kennebecasis River, New Brunswick, Second Best, Sister Dorothy New!
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Sumach Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Gracie, Saint John, Uncle Dister, Aunt Tish, Granny Banty, Sandy Cove Road, Victoria Day, Victoria Plincher, Aunty Grabbity, Black Bush, Aunt Liz, Gil Darby, Kennebecasis River, New Brunswick, Second Best, Sister Dorothy New!
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